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Distinguished Service Citation
Awarded to alumni on the basis of overall achievements, personal growth in career, and outstanding civic, cultural, and professional/business service in such ways as to reflect credit on Beloit College.
Chosen by the Alumni Association Board of Directors and presented on campus during Reunion each year.
Making a Nomination
Restrictions: Recipients must be celebrating a reunion year 25 years or greater. Nominations may also include alumni that are no longer with us.
2022 Nomination Deadline: January 31, 2022
Congratulations 2020 and 2021 Recipients
- Joanna Kutter’95—Distinguished Service Citation
- Vicky Selkowe’96—Distinguished Service Citation
- Dr. Dianne Gerber Nielson’70—Distinguished Service Citation
- Beth Flickinger Padon’70 and Chris Padon’71—Distinguished Service Citation
- Dr. Lynne Goldstein’71—Distinguished Service Citation
The awarding of the 2020 Distinguished Service Citations was postponed until 2021.
Previous Recipients
- None awarded yet (25 years have not passed)
- Dr. Jai Balkissoon’80 (awarded in 2005)
- Steven Gregg’80 (awarded in 2015)
- Dr. Philip R. Christian’81 (awarded in 2006)
- John Erikson’82 (awarded in 2007)
- John T. Hailer’83 (awarded in 2013)
- Thomas J. O’Neill’83 (awarded in 2008)
- Robert D. Allen’84 (awarded in 2009)
- Michele Belcitch Erikson’84 (awarded in 1998)
- Shamshad Rashid’85 (awarded in 2010)
- Bill Fitzgerald’86 (awarded in 2011)
- Matt Tolmach’86 (awarded in 2016)
- Dr. Alison M. Fry’87 (awarded in 2012)
- Margaret Nygren’87 (awarded in 2017)
- Debra Hass’88 (awarded in 2013)
- Stephanie Klett’89 (awarded in 2014)
- David Goodfriend’90 (awarded in 2015)
- Daniel Aimes’91 (awarded in 2016)
- Jamey Brumfield’92 (awarded in 2017)
- Anne Mahle’92 (awarded in 2017)
- Raj Fernando’93 (awarded in 2018)
- Dr. Sudha Pavuluri Quamme’94 (awarded in 2019)
- Joanna Kutter’95 (awarded in 2020)
- Vicky Selkowe’96 (awarded in 2021)
- Timothy Dalton, Jr.’60 (awarded in 2010)
- Walter E. Duka’60 (awarded in 1985)
- Harry L. Hamilton’60 (awarded in 2000)
- Constance Leuer Golden’61 (awarded in 1991)
- Robert G. Houdek’61 (awarded in 2001)
- Tom Mullaney’61 (awarded in 2011)
- Barbara Brown Zikmund’61 (awarded in 1986)
- Dr. William Bennett Galloway’62 (awarded in 2012)
- Paul Stitt’62 (awarded in 1987)
- Eugene W. Zeltmann’62 (awarded in 1993)
- William A. Boyd’63 (awarded in 2013)
- Jack Richard Dukes’63 (awarded in 1993)
- Linda Treat Hisgen’63 (awarded in 1998)
- Craig Heiser’64 (awarded in 2014)
- Harold Mayer’64 (awarded in 2004)
- Gene Banucci’65 and Phyllis Wolff Banucci’65 (awarded in 2005)
- Dick Niemiec’65 (awarded in 2015)
- William C. Putnam’65 (awarded in 1985)
- Dr. Arthur J. Elman’66 (awarded in 2006)
- Bob Norris’66 (awarded in 2016)
- A. Lanier Gordon, Jr.’67 (awarded in 1996)
- Katherine Austin Mahle’67 (awarded in 2007)
- Stephen H. Mahle’67 (awarded in 1996)
- Robert C. Nowinski’67 (awarded in 1992)
- John Pasquin’67 (awarded in 2017)
- Martha “Marty” Dyer Feltus’68 (awarded in 2018)
- Rosemary Widmann Gruber’68 (awarded in 2018)
- John A. Thorn’68 (awarded in 1993)
- J. Edson Way’68 (awarded in 2008)
- Richard Brooks’69 (awarded in 2014)
- Thomas Casadevall’69 (awarded in 2019)
- Robert Lee Morris’69 (awarded in 1988)
- Marsha R. Williams’69 (awarded in 1994)
- Michael D. Young’69 (awarded in 2009)
- Linda Gregorin Clifford’70 (awarded in 2010)
- Ellen Phillips Frohnmayer’70 (awarded in 1995)
- Dr. Dianne Gerber Nielson’70 (awarded in 2020)
- Beth Flickinger Padon’70 and Chris Padon’71 (joint 2020/2021 award)
- Donald P. Carson’71 (awarded in 1996)
- Janine P. Geske’71 (awarded in 2002)
- Alisan Goldfarb’71 (awarded in 2016)
- Dr. Lynne Goldstein’71 (awarded in 2021)
- F. Jameson Parker II’71 (awarded in 1985)
- John Sall’71 (awarded in 2011)
- Judith Ann Miller’72 (awarded in 1997)
- James R. Sullivan’72 (awarded in 1991)
- Arthur K. Thexton’72 (awarded in 2012)
- Thomas W. Dickinson III’73 (awarded in 2013)
- Phee Boon Kang’73 (awarded in 2002)
- Marca Bristo’74 (awarded in 1989)
- Peggy Robinson’74 (awarded in 2014)
- Steven Cohen’75 (awarded in 2015)
- Michael J. Koss’76 (awarded in 2001)
- Ann Bausum’79 (awarded in 2004)
- Horace W. Gerarde’40
- Milan E. Hapala’40 (awarded in 1975)
- Arthur L. Luebke’40
- June Bjorklund Martin’40 (awarded in 1970)
- Richard Retter’40 (awarded in 1980)
- Louis A. Toepfer’40 (awarded in 1965)
- Arline Robbins Bernard’41 (awarded in 1976)
- John Biester’41 (awarded in 1991)
- Douglas R. Morton’41 (awarded in 1966)
- Donald A. Sandro’41 (awarded in 1971)
- Adolph Dubs’42 (awarded in 1972)
- H. Hurst Gibson’42 (awarded in 1977)
- Paul K. Giloth’42 (awarded in 1982)
- Albert R. Hough’42 and Lois Malone Hough’42 (awarded jointly in 2008)
- Robert H. Kline’42 (awarded in 1992)
- Philip E. Nethercut’42 (awarded in 1967)
- Carla Shriner Williams’42 (awarded in 1967)
- Edward D. Gates’43 (awarded in 1968)
- Paul E. Hodgson’43 (awarded in 1973)
- Jean E. Koehler’43 (awarded in 1978)
- Barbara Ellett Taylor’43 (awarded in 1983)
- Arnold A. Sio’44 (awarded in 1969)
- Paul H. Thomas’44 (awarded in 1984)
- Jane Foster Doud’45 (awarded in 1995)
- Carl M. Grip’46 (awarded in 1970)
- Betty-Jane Jones’46 (awarded in 1996)
- Philip A. Sprague’46 (awarded in 1971)
- Ardis Candy Tolstedt’46 (awarded in 1971)
- Virginia Workman Bremberg’47 (awarded in 1987)
- Richard E. Burow’47 (awarded in 1972)
- Eldridge H. Gilbert’47 (awarded in 1983)
- Verna King Gruhlke’47 (awarded in 1972)
- Maybeth Shaffer Martin’47 (awarded in 1997)
- William O. Nelson’47 (awarded in 1987)
- Jean Anderson Robinson’47 (awarded in 1977)
- Ruane B. Hill’48 (awarded in 1978)
- Arthur T. Johnson’48 (awarded in 1998)
- Pete Kostantacos’48 (awarded in 2007)
- Elizabeth Kaatz Mooney’48 (awarded in 1973)
- William H. Wallace’48 (awarded in 1973)
- William D. Bechill’49 (awarded in 1969)
- James E. Duffy’49 (awarded in 1999)
- John E. Erickson’49 (awarded in 2005)
- James J. Flood’49 (awarded in 1989)
- Malcolm L. Martin’49 (awarded in 1974)
- David M. Myers’49 (awarded in 2004)
- Richard D. Nethercut’49 (awarded in 1999)
- Merrill C. Rueppel’49 (awarded in 1974)
- Xiao-Xuan Tang’49 (awarded in 1989)
- F. Caleb Blodgett, Jr.’50 (awarded in 1990)
- Donald F. Bolles’50 (awarded in 1975)
- Lewis D. Dalvit’50 (awarded in 1975)
- Lowell Ericsson’50 (awarded in 2010)
- Jacqueline Dougan Jackson’50 (awarded in 2000)
- O. Vernon Shaffer’50 (awarded in 1981)
- William B. Crawford’51 (awarded in 1986)
- Veronica Bunk Gayle’51 (awarded in 1976)
- Charles R. Goulet’51 (awarded in 1976)
- Lyle Gramley’51 (awarded in 2011)
- Joe Kobylka’51 (awarded in 2006)
- Marta Sutton Weeks’51 (awarded in 2011)
- John M. Eldred’52 (awarded in 1972)
- John A. Grande’52 (awarded in 1997)
- J. Harry Jones’52 (awarded in 1981)
- William R. Leonard’52 (awarded in 1977)
- Robert H. Beeby’53 (awarded in 1984)
- Joan Sullivan Berna’53 (awarded in 1993)
- Lawrence C. Pakula’53 (awarded in 2003)
- Stanley York’53 (awarded in 1978)
- Gerald G. Fox’54 (awarded in 1994)
- Wanda Peterson Hollensteiner’54 (awarded in 2009)
- Thomas C. Pinney’54 (awarded in 1984)
- Robert M. Royalty’54 (awarded in 1979)
- Clyde L. Boutelle’55 (awarded in 2005)
- Suzanne Gross Reed’55 (awarded in 1975)
- Daniel J. Schroeder’55 (awarded in 1980)
- Ruth Vosburgh Smith’55 (awarded in 1995)
- Fredarick L. Gobel’56 (awarded in 2000)
- H. Daniel Green’56 (awarded in 1981)
- Robert E. Porter’56 (awarded in 1996)
- David Threinen’56 and Jane Karr Threinen’56 (awarded jointly in 2006)
- Robert L. Virgil’56 (awarded in 1981)
- Charles W. Woodford’56 (awarded in 1976)
- Nancy Wormley Boutelle’57 (awarded in 1982)
- John W. Freeman Jr.’57 (awarded in 1972)
- Ed Hoerr’57 (awarded in 2007)
- Ronald D. Orndorff’57 (awarded in 2012)
- Kenneth J. Beeby’58 (awarded in 2008)
- Douglas B. Baily’59 (awarded in 1990)
- Loraine Smith Gates’59 (awarded in 2009)
- Marcus F. Franda’59 (awarded in 1999)
- John D. Payne’59 (awarded in 1979)
- Sara Moore Robinson’59 (awarded in 1979)
- Peter F. Tufo’59 (awarded in 1999)